"there's more to living than being alive"

I was recently listening to one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands. Alexithymia by Anberin. In the song Stephen repeatedly sings "there's more to living than being alive." These lyrics really seemed to pop out at me today. There are so many times when i would walk on to my high school campus and see walking corpses. These people are obsessed with drugs/drinking/gossip/sex/etc. They never venture outside of their social norm and never truelly experience what it is like to live. They choose to party every weekend only to wake up not remembering what happened. It is an endless cycle of abuse that will eventually take them captive. Instead of choosing to drink, it will be a necessity. I have seen this happen too many times.

Those of us who know what it is like to live, and not just be alive, must start showing it. If not were just as guilty as the corpses among us. Don't be afraid to travel outside of your social groups. Make new friends. Experience life.